If anyone has any extra tickets to the Boston shows let me know. Ideally 3 to either show, but a pair to each/one or the other would work too.
Thanks!
Also hello old forum friends :wave:
All of this. I'm still tinkering with my track listing, but I also left Every Breaking Wave off. It just doesn't seem to fit in with the themes. But then again, the simpler melancholy version has long had a home on my alternate NLOTH so it would be redundant here anyway.
I'm not giving #'s, you can't quantify things like this, I'll just go with what means the most to me and what I think about the music on a gut level.
NLOTH, it's a frustrating experience but cut the middle and drop in the old EBW and Soon to lead things off and it's my third favorite U2 album...
Yeah I've never gotten that either. NLOTH certainly would have sold better with a better lead single, that would also have likely gotten them more play for subsequent singles. But it was released when sales had already fallen off a cliff, barely anything went platinum then, and even fewer albums...
So now that some cool people have come out to defend Pop (sorry blue crackers, we're not cool enough) will the band stop pretending it doesn't exist for this upcoming tour? Besides, they've already decided the new album that doesn't exist is NLOTH (:sad:).
It would be so nice to hear Please...
U2 still skews to crowds that buy physical releases and like albums, Jesse J is a singles artist and people already have the singles you mentioned/are more into streaming than purchasing.
I think they'll be #1, though sadly Florida Georgia Line could give them a run for their money.
Though since making that comment I've come around to it a bit. It's at the bottom of the pile of songs Bono's written on the topic, but there's still some genuinely affecting lines buried beneath the sheen of the pop production. With a better vocal melody and no Tedder it could work a lot...
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Walsh is a 2nd generation Irish immigrant, he should try to embarrass himself a little less when it comes to Ireland.
Also, never in a million years would U2 play Fenway, nor should they.
Bono's admitted that the lure of the rock star for him was actually about insecurity and constantly angling U2 for the largest stage possible seems to confirm that. Sure he has an ego, but it's one that he doesn't appear to believe in himself, like if U2 were to fade away instead of going out on...